The Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant - Transcendental Idealism and the Refutation of Idealism
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The Refutation of Idealism
Can't seeks to prove we do in fact have experience of objects which are distinct from us in space, thereby refuting any continued skepticism about the external world and our relationship to it. Can't begins by describing various forms of idealism, beginning with a conceptual idealism. It affirms that the matter of representations is supplied by the subject so it is an idealism concerning objects. In the refutation can't tries to refute this material idealism and defend an empirical realism.
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